Frozen Tools Forensics

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics looks at goalies who could steal a starting gig.  **** Fitness testing, prospect tournaments, rookie camps, and exhibition games are right around the corner. This is the time of year for veterans to show their experience and for the bright-eyed, exuberant youth to push for jobs. There’s nothing like a [...]

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics is the second part of the series in expected regressions.  **** We’re back this week to feature a few more candidates who are destined to disappoint their fantasy owners. Whether it be due to an unsustainable scoring rate, new competition, a change in role or that darn father time catching [...]

“You know Jerry, when somebody yells ‘Heads up!’ you’re not supposed to actually look up.”      – Cosmo Kramer   ***   As we prepare for fantasy drafts, it’s time to lift our heads from last year’s stats and rankings and begin considering what’s on tap for 2016-17. Some players will continue their development, be [...]

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics Takes Its Final Look At Bounce Back Candidates. **** After some popular demand we’re back for one final installment of Frozen Pool Forensics’ Bounce Back Candidates. This week, we’ll take a look at a handful of players due for a return to former glory or perhaps take a step back [...]

  This week's Frozen Pool Forensics looks at Claude Giroux, Rick Nash, Sergei Bobrovsky and Tyler Johnson …   […]

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics looks at Connor McDavid's prospects for next year.  **** If anyone is expecting a sophomore slump from Connor McDavid next season, get ready to be disappointed. Here is a player that only follows one trend: Surpassing expectations. As the most anticipated player since Sidney Crosby a decade earlier, McDavid has [...]

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics looks at the likely new centre for Taylor Hall: Adam Henrique. **** This FPF will be brief, boys and girls. It’s July 1st so there’s going to be plenty of words to read on free agent signees, burgers to barbeque, and Team Canada jerseys to be worn in scorching hot [...]

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics dives into Tyler Seguin's production, and future.  **** At no other time in league history has cheap, young talent been such a priority for teams. The salary cap has forced the middle class of players to the sidelines as top line wages continue to rise and the roles of those [...]

This week's Frozen Pool Forensics discusses the future for Pittsburgh's rookies. **** Despite what you may have heard from those interviewed on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, the Pittsburgh Penguins are your 2015-2016 Stanley Cup Champions. A great deal of their victory can be attributed to the laundry list of what went right, a notion spreads [...]

Frozen Pool Forensics Dives Into Patric Hornqvist's Production and Future **** Taken 230th overall in 2005 – a mere 229 spots after line mate Sidney Crosby had his name called that weekend – Patric Hornqvist has taken the path less travelled in his quest to become a champion. The pugnacious Swede plays a throw-back style [...]